In an article at EETimes, Mark LaPedus reports out on what was going on at SEMICON West this year in regards to 450mm efforts. His update includes status from ISMI, SEMI, Semico, VLSI Research and a variety of experts. The key message is that things look somewhat nebulous ri

SEMI’s Equipment Productivity Working Group (EPWG) is made up of Executives from Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor, Tokyo Electron, Brooks Automation, Lam Research, and Axcelis. The analysis in the EPWG 450mm report issued by SEMI was performed by experts from the member companies